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Tax Time help with some apps from Microsoft

Tax Time help with some apps from Microsoft

With the new financial year upon us you may be wishing that you were a little more organised with your tax receipts. Now while it may not help with last year’s mess Microsoft has some great Apps for Windows devices that may help you out for this financial year.  I spoke with Jaron Cohen from Microsoft Australia about some of the[Read More…]

XBox One minus kinect sensor coming for $499

If you’ve been putting off buying an XBox One games console due to the $600 price tag here’s some good news. From June 9 you’ll find a new xbox one console priced at $499.  The reason for the price drop is that this particular version doesn’t come with the Kinect movement sensor.  In the video below XBox explains the reason[Read More…]

Outlook.com - New features to put you back in control

Outlook.com – New features to put you back in control

How does your email inbox look right now?  Overflowing, never ending?  Thanks to the growth of webmail, that inbox is potentially a bottomless bit and you may even feel like it’s something you’ll never really have much control over. Last week I spoke to Melissa Dewick from Microsoft Australia about the growth of webmail services, some of the problems we[Read More…]

Happy 33rd Birthday to the Computer Mouse

April 27 marks the 32nd anniversary of the very first publicly available computer mouse in 1981. A year later Microsoft introduced its first computer mouse, however it was only 15 years ago that we saw the demise of those frustrating mice with the little rubber ball inside. Here’s an interesting video that shows a brief history of the mouse, which[Read More…]

Microsoft office now on your iPad

Microsoft office now on your iPad

Do you use Microsoft Office? Chances are you’ve used it on your PC or Mac over the years, well now Popular office programs like Word, Excel and Powerpoint are now available from the App store for iPad. For those who just want to read word documents and view excel data and powerpoint presentations there’s a free version of those Apps.[Read More…]